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Education
B.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., City University of New York

Courses Taught

Environment, Technology, and Society

Guns, Drugs, Spices: Trade and the Making of the Modern World

Consumption and Culture

Food and Society

Understanding the Contemporary Middle East

Scholarly Interests
My primary current scholarly interest is understanding the place of drugs in the modern world, with a particular focus on their role in work performance. I maintain less active interests in the political economy of Southwest Asian pastoralists, in exploring the relationship between fieldwork experience and ethnographic understanding, and in understanding how consumption is shaped by and shapes culture.

Presentations
Drugs at Work and Play, University of Capetown and the University Western Cape Anthropology Seminar, Summer 2004
"Adventures in the Zeitgeist: Tarzan, Simmel, Freud and the Crisis of Modernity," North Eastern Anthropology Meetings, Burlington, VT, 2003.
"Adventures in the Zeitgeist, Adventures in Reality," seminar at Field Museum, Chicago, November 2003.

Grants
"US- South Africa Cooperative Research: International Research Experience for US Students in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy," NSF